Wind-driven fire threatens homes south of Reno

6:32 AM,
Nov. 9, 2012

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A wind-whipped wildfire that could have been far more damaging than it turned out to be blasted through a rural neighborhood in Washoe Valley Thursday, destroying two outbuildings but no homes.

The 5-acre fire off Eastlake Boulevard was the latest in a worrying trend of unseasonable fires, with the danger to continue until tinder-dry vegetation in western Nevada is soaked by wetting rains or covered with snow.

The cause of the blaze, dubbed the Lyon Fire, is under investigation. ...